tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85343077467379164202018-03-02T07:52:28.978-08:00Radon's blog..Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-81125019642651129942013-08-25T01:58:00.000-07:002013-08-25T01:58:18.522-07:00I actually agree with TheAmazingAtheist on extending the First Amendment to YouTube.TheAmazingAtheist, TJ, thinks that YouTube should function as a phone company. <br /><br />"<span style="font-size: x-small;">Your phone company might cut your service if your harassing someone or something, I suppose. but they’re not going to cut your service because you espoused unpopular political beliefs on a phone call.</span> "<a href="http://amazingatheist.tumblr.com/post/59216567251/a-phone-company-can-terminate-your-service-based-on">He wrote on his Tumblr.</a><br /><br />I am actually for the idea that YouTube should function more as a phone company.<br />You pay for their service, and if you want to use it for commercial uses, then you pay even more. If you want to use long distance calls, you pay even more. And the ability to charge extra for the HD service sounds great. And just like a real phone company, they will not allow you use your service to scam people.<br />So I am all aboard the idea.&lt;/sarcasm&gt;<br /><br />And if you want to know my feelings on what I think about the supposed attack on ATHEISM, read this:<br /><a href="http://atomicnumber86.blogspot.com/2012/03/re-re-youtube-starts-banning.html">My Blogpost about Thunderf00t</a><br /><br />Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-62407812500922883392013-03-27T13:12:00.001-07:002013-03-27T13:12:30.852-07:00Sources for Top 50 Dumbest Things In Spirit Science 1250: It is spelled testament. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/testament<br />49: It is spelled Atheism. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism<br />48: Angels are not real. Footage from Dogma. 47: Survival is not equivalent of the meaning of hell. Footage from The Princess Bride. <br />46: Edgar Cayce was a fraud. http://skepdic.com/comments/caycecom.html Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjXi6X-moxE<br />45: Scientists don't accept polar shifts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis<br />http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_motion<br />44: And this is just not true. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/about.html<br />43: Charles Hapgood was a historian, not a geologist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hapgood<br />42: This is just pure speculation, with no basis in science or anything.<br />41: No such thing has been observed. Footage from X-Men: The Last Stand<br />40: How convenient. Footage from Zoolander<br />39: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.<br />38: The Sumerian writing system, Cuneiform script, was replaced by the Phoenician alphabet<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiahu_symbols<br />37: The Aboriginals can not communicate via dreamtime. This has never been observed.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime Footage from Clerks<br />36: No evidence of this. Footage from Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back<br />35: Animals don't communicate through thougts. They don't communicate out of emotions.<br />http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/animals-communicate.htm<br />34: Reincarnation has not been proved, ever.<br />http://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation4.htm<br />33: Star Wars is not a documentary. Laser don't work that way. <br />http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2009/02/04/the-physics-of-the-death-star/<br />hhttp://www.howstuffworks.com/laser.htm<br />Footage: Star Wars Episode IV<br />32: The earth is not alive. <br />31: There has been a reasonable explanation for all the disappearances. Footage from BBC - What Happened To Flight 19?<br />30: This is not true.<br />http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Earths_layers/Earths_layers4.html<br />I like how they refer to Einstein as modern science. (He died 10 years after ww2). History Channel is not science.<br />29: I.. I don't know, okay? It's just stupid. Footage from Demolition Man.<br />28: This is supposed to be 13,000 years ago. It was also dry back then: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/page2/ancient-lakes-of-the-sahara<br />27: There is no recorded incident of this. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/Nasa-Predicts-Total-Blackout-Dec-2012.htm<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_Darkness<br />26: I have never heard of this, and given that I have worked with ~1500 musicians, I find this quite improbable. http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/IYearLab/stwaves.pdf In all the research I have read about acoustic resonance, I have not come across this even once.<br />25: There are at least 60 male gods alone on that picture. <br />24: There is no evidence for the existence of these tablets, nor their indestructibility.<br />23: Sure if we discount scientific evidence for plate tectonics, the evidence for the occurence of storms, volcanoes etc.. <br />Footage from Ghostbusters.<br />22: That is clearly the atmosphere. http://www.scienceterrific.com/atmosphere_color.php<br />Footage from Atmosphere - Hockey Hair<br />21: Holographic and solid gold? That is impossible.<br />20: No it doesn't. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Christ&amp;allowed_in_frame=0<br />http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=crystal&amp;allowed_in_frame=0<br />19: Again it would seem that they having even done the slightest of research, and just accept anything without question: http://skepdic.com/monkey.html<br />Footage from 12 Monkeys<br />18: The Sphinx isn't that old. http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/sphinxa10.htm<br />That sign is not a sign of life.<br />17: I have nothing.<br />16: It is not scientific fact that there was a global flood. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html<br />15: There is no evidence of polar shifts happening within a day.<br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016084936.htm<br />Brief is relative in geology.<br />Footage: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication<br />14: There is still no evidence of this, neither is there any evidence of humans being effected by magnets.<br />Footage from Atop The 4th wall - Superman At Earth's End<br />13: I'd like to see some evidence for that, please.<br />12: Only the outer layer was built from the top down. <br />http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/pyramid.htm<br />11: Yes, he came so much out of nowhere, that his father,Amenhotep III was the previous ruler of Egypt.<br />http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/66.99.40<br />Akhenaten's real name was Amenhotep IV. <br />Footage: Dream Evil - Immortal<br />10: This seems a bit more advanced:<br />http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/custommenu.html<br />9: 7 is 7? Whuuut? And just briefly after the Lord's Prayer, this happens:<br />http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2011:14&amp;version=NIV<br />8: To be fair, they said there was little evidence for this. I would rather say there is no evidence, what so ever. <br />I looked through Paramount pictures, and I could not find any evidence of them opening King Tut's tomb.. except this: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1087270-mummy/news/1646453/paramount_plans_to_enter_quotking_tutsquot_tomb/<br />The opening of King Tut's tomb, was done by CBS.<br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824266/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_(series)<br />Why should Paramount have to pay for filming? <br />And a wall of light? Ehmmm<br />7: Well this just goes against all we know about biology.<br />Footage from Penn&amp;Teller: Bullshit. Episode: Mt. Rushmore.<br />Footage from Kenneth Miller on Intelligent Design.<br />6: http://www.space.com/14793-comet-earth-impact-younger-dryas.html<br />USA did not raise up from the ocean less than 13,000 years ago. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea<br />5: We are not physically advanced compared to many species. We are not that fast. Not that great at jumping. Not that strong. <br />Footage from Freakazoid - The Chip Part 1<br />4: Life could have existed on Mars.. 3.8 billion years ago. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130312-mars-life-curiosity-space-science/<br />Footage from Duck Dodgers - In The 24th½ Century<br />3: There is no solid evidence for any change on humans during the full moon.<br />http://scis.uai.it/uaiemedia/effect.htm<br />If any, rapes would be fewer, due to better illumination.<br />2: Sure we are unable to build giant ass buildings. Just not happening.<br />http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/modern-pyramid-architecture<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid<br />Footage from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFWRaNX-fw<br />1: And then we found it couldn't exist because of Plate tectonics. http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2808/stories/20110422280809000.htm<br />Footage from Madagascar<br /><br />Clips used throughout from Futurama - The Cryonic Woman.Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-46072752470675084272012-12-05T07:14:00.003-08:002012-12-05T13:09:51.401-08:00NO MA'AM - No sexists hereMost of you are probably aware of the mid 90's sitcom "Married With Children" and are therefore familiar to "NO MA'AM" (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood).<br />This was of course a joke. The male lead Al Bundy (Played by Ed O'Neill) was constantly nagged by his wife Peggy (Played by Katey Sagal), and therefore created a club to end the nagging and governing of his unemployed wife. But was Al Bundy on to something here? I am by no means more of a MRA (Male Rights Advocate) than I am a FRA (Female Rights Advocate).<br />But now I have read something that really forces me to channel my inner Psycho Dad in regards to gender equality.<br />Something called MA'AM - Men Against Assholes &amp; Misogyny created by Jen Kirkman (Yes, a female), is what has caused this. Or specifically one post on there. I have only read the one I am responding to.<br /><br />And as always my thoughts and corrections will be in italic and red, where as the article I am responding to will be in the default font.<br /><br />The original article (a Tumblr) can be found <a href="http://menagainstassholesandmisogyny.tumblr.com/post/36894773319/will-forbes-is-a-maam">here</a><br /><br />Anyway here we go:<br /><br /><h4>Will Forbes is a "MA'AM"</h4><br />I’ve always had a hard time understanding sexism.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">At least we start out on agreement. I do and I have always stated that both genders are equally stupid.</span></i><br /><br />Maybe it’s because I grew up with two older sisters that are both smarter and better human beings than me.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I fail to see the connection here. How does having two older smarter sisters correlate to you not understanding sexism? Is there any particular reason why these sisters are smarter than you? And in all fields? Likewise, how are they better human beings?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />(One has 3 horribly perfect kids and the other just passed the bar while I’m currently picking Rice Krispies out of my chest hair)<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>How does having 3 perfect kids mean that the one is smarter and a better human being than you?&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>And how does passing the (law?) bar, mean you are a good person?&nbsp;</i></span><br /><br />But it’s not just sexism I don’t understand.<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>No, there is quite a lot you don't understand. And that I don't understand for that matter. What I am getting at here, is that in order to qualify something following that sentence, you would need a semicolon; because else you make a full stop - onward to next sentence.</i></span><br /><br />I don’t understand how anyone can treat one group of people with less respect than they would another.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Yes, you fucking do. Later on you treat males with close to no respect. But on a wider point, do you respect criminals as much as your siblings? Do you respect non-feminists as much as you respect feminists? If not, then you are a hypocrite.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />I don’t know if I just skipped that developmental stage where deep seeded disrespect is implanted or if these people are literally robots with anti whatever hate filled entitlement chips installed in their brain<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Please for the love of god, use some punctuation. And do you even remember the previous sentence you just wrote? You are already disagreeing with yourself. It didn't take you long to contradict what you just wrote. Well fucking done.</span></i><br /><br />but somewhere along the road a LARGE PERCENTAGE of otherwise rational humans have the ability to see a group of people and think “YOU ARE LESS IMPORTANT THAN ME SO I CAN TREAT YOU LIKE SHIT AND STILL FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF”.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Like calling them robots, for instance? Or what we shall read later on?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />This can apply to sex, race, height, weight, hair color, webbed feet, etc…<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Or implants?</span></i><br /><br />but on the front of sexisim I have some simple advice for men that I&nbsp;believe&nbsp;may help.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I believe you don't.</span></i><br /><br />This obviously doesn’t apply to all men or all women or all anything and I will be making some broad generalizations, but here me out…<br /><i><span style="color: red;">*hear. I also make broad generalizations. I believe that broads should be allowed to salute my general.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Dear (straight) Men,<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Hey, that's me. (Men shouldn't be capitalized)</span></i><br /><br />No one wants to fuck you.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">No, I think you are quite wrong. Nobody wants to fuck you, Will.</span></i><br /><br />Unless you’re Ryan Gosling, George Clooney,&nbsp;Channing Tatum, or another one of the 1 percent of men that women actually find physically desirable, no one wants to fuck you.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I would like to see the research behind this. No actually I won't. I am not interested in your ass, Will. This is complete fucking bullshit.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Not the girl at the grocery store with the nice ass.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">How do you know?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Not girl at the bar you keep force feeding drinks.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I really wish someone was force-feeding me drinks at the moments.</span></i><br /><br />Not your gay friend that you assume is just waiting for you to be drunk enough.<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>What the fucking hell? I am sorry burst your bubble. But most straight guys are aware that gay/bi people don't wanna jump in our pants.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><br />Probably not even you’re girlfriend.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">No, they absolutely hated the sight of males. They almost vomited. </span></i><br /><br />If you don’t believe me allow me to say it in all caps.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Because saying it in caps, somehow makes it true.</span></i><br /><br />NO. ONE. WANTS. TO. FUCK. YOU. EVER.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">APART FROM YOUR MOM! AND YOUR SISTER!</span></i><br /><br />If you’ve had consensual sex before it’s most likely because you made her laugh, you seemed nonthreatening, are relatively&nbsp;clean, or some other reason…but you weren’t her first choice<br /><i><span style="color: red;">First off, you outline it like consensual sex isn't the norm. And I wasn't her first choice? Oh no, I mean, all the women I have fucked, were obviously my first choice. They are the one that I wanted the most, oh wait..&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">The girl in my grocery store (Fakta) with the nice ass, is not my first choice.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Even if you think you’re a 9 outta 10, &nbsp;you’re gross. If you need proof, take off all your clothes and look in a mirror. Go ahead. I’ll wait.<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Unless, you are quite fat, you are able to see the most of your self without the use of a mirror. A mirror is primarily used for the face.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><br />See all that loose skin flopping between your legs? That’s a penis and it’s primary function is to become engorged with blood until it shoots out a sticky white substance that smells like a dead animal.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">No, I really suggest that you take some classes in biology and anatomy. The primary function of the penis is not to become erect and ejaculate. It is most commonly used for taking a piss.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">And no human sperm isn't a strong odor.</span></i> <a href="http://menshealth.about.com/cs/stds/a/about_semen_2.htm">http://menshealth.about.com/cs/stds/a/about_semen_2.htm</a><br /><br />Sound appealing? Sound like something you want inside of you?<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Have you ever seen a vagina, Will? They are not pretty. Sorry to break it to you, but evolution didn't really rely on males finding them objectively attractive. You might think a pussy looks good, but take a second to think about it. And now go watch an unshaven one. It is a vast cave perfect for storing things.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>So no, they are not pretty.</i></span><br /><br />(Unless you’re a gay bottom, but the chances of someone being a gay bottom being sexist are none to none)<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Yeah, because gays can't be sexists right? Of course they fucking can, you fucking sexist. You have now judged all gay people to be incapable of something, just so you can fit it into your narrow narrative. Seriously, go fuck yourself.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Now, in no way am I saying women don’t want or like sex.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Good. Because they do.</span></i><br /><br />In fact, it’s quite the&nbsp;opposite. I know I’m making some VERY broad&nbsp;generalizations&nbsp;here, but most women if given the right situation and&nbsp;comfortably&nbsp;like sex MORE than men.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Citation fucking needed. Stop making fucking baseless fucking assertions, you ignorant fuck.</span></i><br /><br />And they should.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Hooray for equality?</span></i><br /><br />The female body is basically a landmine of&nbsp;erogenous&nbsp;zones.<br /><a href="http://www.womansday.com/sex-relationships/sex-tips/9-surprising-male-erogenous-zones-113646">http://www.womansday.com/sex-relationships/sex-tips/9-surprising-male-erogenous-zones-113646</a><br /><br />Women cum harder<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Define harder!</span></i><br /><br />longer<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Citation needed.</span></i><br /><br />and in more interesting ways than men with little to no mess<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Ha ha ha. Seriously, have you ever made a girl cum, Will? I am not talking about squirting here, but women cumming can be quite messy.</span></i><br /><br />while all the the male body has is that fleshy thing and whatever fucked up thoughts are in their head.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Wait, what? So only males think about fucked up things? Seriously, Will. I think you need to get laid. And no, males can cum in more ways than that. In fact, a male orgasm can occur before ejaculation. Don't you know anything? And regards to your statement about males thinking about fucked up things:</span></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://nert.me/comics/large_1326070178.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="http://nert.me/comics/large_1326070178.png" width="320" /></a></div>&nbsp;Luckily for us men, many women are&nbsp;genetically&nbsp;predisposed to be attracted to men and male&nbsp;genitalia no matter how gross and sweaty we are.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">This is a two way street, Will.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />While they hope that someday their Ryan Gosling will come,<br /><i><span style="color: red;">And now you are demeaning to women. You really are despicable.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />they also know the reality of the 1 percent and have evolved their sexual taste to&nbsp;appreciate&nbsp;more than just the&nbsp;physical.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Where as men only think about the physical, right?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />So even though it’s not ideal, many women&nbsp;allow the kinda funny, kinda cute, kinda clean men of the world to thrust their engorged skin inside them to a messy finish.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I am really at a loss for words. Seriously, Will, you need help. I think your sisters, or someone else fucked you up badly.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />So what do many men do with this glorious&nbsp;privilege?<br /><i><span style="color: red;">A privilege? But you also previously stated that women enjoy sex, even more than men.. Oh fuck it. You are all over the place.</span></i><br /><br />They cat call, they gawk, they denigrate, they objectify, they&nbsp;condescend, they abuse, and overall treat women like they’re a lesser species. It’s like Willy Wonka giving you the keys to the candy factory even though you don’t deserve it and instead of thanking him, you shit in his mouth so you can feel superior.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/C6YfJZ9hxLQ?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div>Is it a defense&nbsp;mechanism&nbsp;born out of intellectual insecurity?<br />Centuries&nbsp;of unequal gender roles in western society?<br />Religion says it’s okay?<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Ehm. Why should men thank women for having sex? Really. We just established that women enjoy sex.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><br />Whatever the reason is, that reason is bullshit. Grow the fuck up.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">I seriously feel that you need to grow the fuck up, Will.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Listen, I get it. Deep down you’re just an animal and are following your primate instincts.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Actually we are animals.</span></i><br /><br />Women have lady parts and when you’re around them it makes your penis brain go OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH GIMME GIMME..<br /><i><span style="color: red;">No.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />but for fucks sake is it that hard to take the ONE SECOND to think HEY SHUT UP PENIS BRAIN THIS IS A HUMAN I’M TALKING TO I SHOULD BE RESPECTFUL?<br /><i><span style="color: red;">If she is worthy of being respected. Respect is not given, it is fucking earned.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Or better yet, SHE DOESN’T WANT TO FUCK YOU BRO NO ONE DOES SO JUST SHUT UP AND FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO BE AN ASSHOLE ABOUT.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Well, some women want to fuck, we already established that.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />So next time you’re thinking about calling a woman a slut or tell them that their asking for it or calling them feminist when they try to defend themselves,<br /><i><span style="color: red;">If one calls her a slut, obviously she wants to fuck. For fucks sake, Will.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />stop and think for that one second. If after that second you still want to be sexist, kill yourself because you’re probably Chris Brown. <br /><i><span style="color: red;">How is it sexist to call a woman a slut? It isn't. It is sexist to refer to women as being sluts. Or referring to men as unclean.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />But if after that second you can prevent the horrible shit from coming out your mouth congratulations,<br /><i><span style="color: red;">If only you had prevented that horrible shit coming from your mouth/fingers.</span></i><br /><br />you just avoided ruining a woman’s day for no reason. <br /><i><span style="color: red;">So now women are also delicate flowers?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><br />Who knows, maybe if you treat women with respect all the time one of them might eventually think you’re kinda cute, kinda clean, and give you a chance to navigate the minefield even though you’re disgusting and sweaty.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">Because women don't sweat, fact. There is a difference between people with respect, and then sticking your nose so far up their ass, that your shoulders become brown</span></i>.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>So in summary, Will.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Women smell. They also sweat. If they don't sweat during sex, it is because they are just laying there, doing nothing. Which isn't to be preferred.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Women are also disgusting. Our sexual drive makes us see past that, but they are.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>And here are some pointers for you.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Women also shit. They also pee. They also puke. Their sexual organs are not objectively attractive.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>If you think otherwise, you should go get some help, Will.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Women are not better or worse than men. They are exactly the same.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>If you think otherwise, you are per definition a sexist.</i></span>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-821964578515978042012-11-17T11:40:00.005-08:002012-11-17T11:42:47.611-08:00HappyCabbie And Papa John's Economy As per usual for this blog my correction and opinions will be in red and italic, where as the original will be in the default font.<br /><br />The original text can be found <a href="http://happycabbie.blogspot.dk/2012/11/papa-johns-and-obamacare.html">here</a><br /><br /><h4 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Papa John's and Obamacare&nbsp;</h4><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Today is the Support Papa John's Pizza Day.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">Well, actually it is called "Papa John's Appreciation Day"</span></i>.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">The owner of Papa John's Pizza, John Schnatter, has been an outspoken critic of Obamacare because of the impact it would have on his business.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Which is slim to none.&nbsp;</i></span> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">&nbsp;The chief of his complaint is that to comply with the law to provide health insurance for his current full time employees (over 30 hours) would cost him $5 to $8 million.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">There is no such expression as "chief of his complaint". And $5 - $8 millions dollars annually is still a drop in the bucket. It is only twice/thrice the amount of compensation John gets for himself:</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-schnatter-1/">http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-schnatter-1/</a></span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Or in practical terms it would force him to raise costs by 11-14 cents per pizza.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">An astronomical amount, I must confess.</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">His solution is to cut back hours on corporate owned stores.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>The only solution there is.</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Some of them are owned by franchises<span style="color: red;"><i>,</i></span> who of course will make up their own minds. Cenk Uygar <span style="color: red;"><i>&lt;</i><i>sic&gt;</i></span> takes him to task however, I think toward the end <span style="color: red;"><i>of</i></span> his rant about the wealth that John Schnatter has <i><span style="color: red;">-</span></i> was way out of line. So I wish to respond to that.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Well, you voted for Romney, so one shouldn't be surprised. </i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">First it should be noted that the Forbes article Cenk is quoting from can be found&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-down-centi-millionaire-papa-john-schnatters-obamacare-math/">HERE</a> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">He also brings up the fact that John Schnatter is giving away 2 million free pizza's <i><span style="color: red;">(pizzas),</span></i> this year at an estimated cost of $24 to $32 million.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">And then we can calculate using that 14 cents figure you gave earlier, that Papa John's is selling roughly 57 million pizzas a year. </span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Which is just blatantly un-fucking-true. The amount is closer to 2 billion.</i></span> <a href="http://top5ofanything.com/index.php?h=0856c4e6">Source</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">Or said more bluntly, which seems more likely; that every American buys 1/6 of a Papa John's Pizza a year, or that every American buys 6 Papa John's pizzas a year?</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Well it should be noted this is no different than standing in front of a store front<i><span style="color: red;"> (storefront)</span></i> giving away free samples.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Well, I actually agree with Happy here.</i></span> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">he idea is not to give away free food <span style="color: red;"><i>(Your guess is as good as mine)</i></span>, rather it is to get new customers. It is simply part of the advertising budget. So I myself am going to discount that.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Even though Forbes did an analysis of the numbers and projected a much lower expected price increase of 3 to 4 cents per pizza, I am going to use John Schnatter's numbers.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Yeah, because why use an independent analysis? And just for the record, I did the calculation, and I got the same results as Forbes.&nbsp;</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>And no, it is not 3 to 4 per pizza, Happy. It is 0.3cents per pizza.&nbsp;</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Let's break it down real simple here.&nbsp;</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>We know that the total amount to pay is $8,000,000 we then divide by a million, so it becomes $8.</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Now we know the amount of total pizzas sold is about 2,000,000,000, we then divide by a million, so it becomes 2000.</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>We then divide 8 by 2000, and voila. $0.004</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">After all he owns the company, it is theoretically possible he knows something that Forbes doesn't.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>No, he is just a liar.&nbsp; </i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Still a 11-14 cent increase on the price of pizza is NOT a deal breaker.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">It is not. Especially when that amount is way higher than the actual amount.&nbsp;</span></i> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Especially when you consider Dominoes <i><span style="color: red;">(Domino's) </span></i>and Pizza Hutt (<i><span style="color: red;">Jabba The Hutt?</span></i>) (the two of Papa John's main competitors) have to incur the same cost.</div><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>Skipping some boring stuff here</i></span><br /><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">A few months ago, conservatives rallied around Chick-Fil-A for their outspoken support of groups that oppose gay marriage.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>As well as their financial support</i></span>.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">While I disagreed with those who supported this, at least I could understand it.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">A business owner has the right to spend the money as he or she sees fit.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Not exactly, no. There are limitations on what he can spend the money on.</i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Those who view those decisions as immoral also have the right to protest and boycott.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Now we have a group of people rallying around a business for their decision to cut employee pay. It is very difficult to live on a part time salary. In many cases these people will be forced to get second jobs. Those with families will have to sacrifice family time for sleep as jobs may not line up back to back. Despite your views on Obamacare, it puzzles me how any one can cheer for John Schnatter's decision to line his pocketbook instead of maintaining his current level of full time employees who depend on those hours for their living.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">And you are the guy who wanted to vote for Romney?</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Cenk Uygar <span style="color: red;"><i>(Uygur)</i></span>&nbsp; then goes off the deep end<span style="color: red;"><i>,</i></span> chastising John Schnatter for living in such a huge house and having so much money as his employee's suffer.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">Where is the problem in this exactly? Should he be allowed to exploit the workers?</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">It is not a crime to be rich and successful.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>But it should be a crime not to cover healthcare on your employees. </i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">John Schnatter started out delivering pizza's and worked his way up. Papa John's Pizza pays a comparable wage. You will never get rich working in a pizza joint for someone else. You are not supposed to.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Nobody ever talked about getting rich. This is a complete fabrication.&nbsp; </i></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">It is entry level work. If you work hard you can make more money as a manager or even save up to buy a franchise. You can also simply do what John Schnatter did, sell your car, and build a business. If you succeed then you can afford a nice house.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="color: red;"><i>Or you can just borrow the money from your parents, isn't that right Romney?</i></span><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">I was right up with Cenk until he attacked John Schnatter's wealth. This is one problem I see far too often. The demands to tax the rich, the rich need to pay their fare <i><span style="color: red;">(sic)</span></i> share.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">Well, if they pay less tax than the rest, then shouldn't that be straightened out? </span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">There is an anti-rich mentality in our country right now and I think it is harmful to our society.&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">Citation fucking needed.</span></i>&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">That being said, I don't think 11-14 cents extra is to<i><span style="color: red;">o</span></i> much to pay for a pizza. Prices go up all the time as the price of gas continues to climb and other things we use everyday. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">You are aware of the reason why gas-prices are going up, right?</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">This entire blogpost by Cabbie seems like it was co-written by Brett Keane. He clearly shows that he has done no research, what so fucking ever. He furthermore shows that he has clearly no understanding of the economy, as he parrots the 14 cents amount given by Schnatter.&nbsp;</span></i></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: red;">As shown, even the smallest amount of math, can verify that just doesn't make any goddamn sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></i> </div>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-37592906495569916972012-09-14T01:38:00.002-07:002012-09-14T01:38:32.339-07:00As read on SkepchickI will start by linking the article:&nbsp; <a href="http://skepchick.org/2012/09/skepchick-quickies-9-13-3/">http://skepchick.org/2012/09/skepchick-quickies-9-13-3/</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>This is the headline that got my attention:&nbsp;<a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/officials-want-keep-one-idaho-top-female-golfers-145307817.html" style="border: 0px; color: #9f4747; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Top female golfer might be kicked off boys team</a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. I hear, “This isn’t fair because a girl is kicking our ass.” Suck it up, dudes. From&nbsp;Alyssa</span></div><div><br /></div><div>I would like to&nbsp;enquire if it also works the other way around? Or if it just a one-way solution?<br />Because that would be sexist.<br /><br />Let me tell you a little story. When I was younger, I was of even smaller stature than I am now, believe it or not, but I was playing soccer. I wasn't very good. So the time came to there being a tournament. The team that was in my age-group had sufficient players, where as the one below didn't. (It was 11-12 and 13-14 for instance). So I had the option of playing on the younger team. So I did. And we won. I scored the most goals. As a midfielder. This was of course unfair, right? So let's just say that I got the chance to lead the female team to victory, would this be unfair? Why? If the roles were reversed, would it still be unfair?<br /><br />So if a female is allowed to play on the boys team, why isn't a male allowed to play on the female team? Or should we make exceptions only in certain situations?<br /><br />So suck it up girls?&nbsp;</div>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-10966536357351030302012-07-15T00:32:00.000-07:002012-07-15T00:35:00.794-07:00Radon reviews "Freethoughtblogs and PC Lyers"<span style="background-color: white;">The original blog is here:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/freethoughtblogs-and-pc-lyers/" style="background-color: white;">https://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/freethoughtblogs-and-pc-lyers/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">Original text is in black, and my opinion and corrections are in italic and red.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;">So PZ Myers is the man who gave me his personal assurances</span><i><span style="color: red;">;</span></i><span style="color: #333333;"> that Freethougthblogs really didn’t have any interest in controlling the content.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i>Okay, great, do you have any evidence of this? You have also claimed that you haven't banned people on YouTube, which is blatantly untrue. I know for a fact that you have. Before all of this happened.&nbsp;</i></span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">This was evidently a verbal assurance made in bad faith.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i>Really? How so? Are you suggesting that PZ was interested in banning you right from the get-go? Or that PZ had seen all possible scenarios you could write about? Would you feel the same way if a person wrote about the best way to obtain illegal files and porn?&nbsp;</i></span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The rough time-line is one week before I was banned, PZ sent this to some mailing list Freethoughtblogs has:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>This is beyond&nbsp;incomprehensible. Just "some" mailing list? Are you&nbsp;inferring&nbsp;that the list was/is random? (I think you are looking for "a mailing list")</i></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thunderf00tdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/pz-myers-anything-goes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="87" src="http://thunderf00tdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/pz-myers-anything-goes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Well that's basically what I did, and what's more I even told them on their mailing list.</span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i>Do you have any evidence of this? And you cannot use them when you refer to a mailing list.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Then ~1 week later, PZ kicks me.&nbsp; Maybe he wasn’t joking about that ‘</span><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><strong>Except me. I’m perfect, don’t you dare say otherwise</strong></em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">‘ bit, or maybe this was one of those ‘many a true word spoken in jest’ type things.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>The correct phrase would be "many a true word is spoken in jest".&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Indeed how quickly opinions can change when it’s him who is getting ‘ripped into’</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Pot. Kettle. Black.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">There was no open consultation in this group about what anyone else thought of my ideas prior to my&nbsp;expulsion, giving this a very totalitarian ‘execution by fiat’ type feel.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>How the fuck do you know? No, seriously how the fuck do you know? Can you read minds?&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Everyone else on the groups was told of my ‘expulsion’ AFTER it happened, I mean hell, they wouldn’t have wanted an actual discussion or to give anyone the possibility to dissent about what is permissible ‘freethought’ on ‘freethoughtblogs’ now would they!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">Even thou it is a rhetorical question, you really should use a question mark.&nbsp;</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>And how do you know this?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Now I really didn’t care about offending these people at this point as on their mailing list I had already been accused of being a ‘rape culture apologist’ (FFS, I don’t think I’ve even touched on the subject), guilty of ablism, devaluing addicts, an not being careful between challenging islam and outright racism.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So wait, they never talked about it, but they called you a "rape culture apologist"? How is that even possible? Because when you refer to 'had already..' this implies it was previous to your blogs. And it is spelled ableism.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">&nbsp;All of this based on NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER (well that’s unless you are happy to count rumors as evidence).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Well, you have been more than willing to count rumors as evidence. Remember that video you made about Coughlan? Was it based on anything but rumors?&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And what did you say to Dawahfilms, again? "go home to your own country". How is that not racism? You had no other reason to claim that Dawahfilms should go home to his own country. Perhaps a strong xenophobia.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">To be honest, I was hoping that there would be a higher standard of conduct than that, but the chatter made it clear that FTB really was somewhere between a&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">bitching slimepit</em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">, and&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">StrawmanCentral</em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>I don't see the need for the Oxford comma here, but isn't it funny how you suspect this of others, but does not have a standard of conduct yourself?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">It was also plain to me from just watching the chatter on this mailing list that there was a significant amount of bullying of weaker members/ opposing viewpoint.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you read the mails? And still you claim that there was "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">no open consultation". How can it be both, TF?</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">If this was an academic environment I would have called bullshit on them in an instant, however by this time it was clear the standard of people that I was dealing and that as a group they were essentially a lost cause.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Thunderf00t, for the love of the moon, please proofread your fucking blogs. And I have no alternative but to use this:</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF589_X_JJg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF589_X_JJg</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">I was happy to write a blog there,&nbsp;but I certainly wasn’t going to waste my time ingratiating myself with such people.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So what was your purpos.. Oh I guess I asked too soon, you will answer this in the next sentence, right?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Incidentally&nbsp;</span><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/advertise-on-freethoughtblogs/" style="color: #b85b5a; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FTB claims that it can deliver ~150 k ad impressions per day</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">, which could mean as little as ~15k hits per day (~10 ads per page).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">I was pulling in ~ 10-15k hits per day on my blog until I was blocked.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">FTB never paid me a penny **</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">EDIT Ed Brayton contests this point, see comment below</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">** (again something that PZ said they would), but to be honest I have little interest in such things.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">So it was all about the money? Don't you make enough in donations, any longer?&nbsp;</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Integrity is MUCH more important than money on such issues.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Then why did you bother to even bring it up? Besides trying to white knight it? Why did you mention the exact amount, if it wasn't that important?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">So I blogged about something which, I thought they were way off base on, namely the&nbsp;disproportionate amount of time they gave sexism compared to other subjects, and the way they attacked, strawmanned and demonized people who bought up sensible concerns.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>And you did so poorly.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">I had expected that PZ Myers (an university lecturer) would at least keep his word on the academic integrity thing, but to be honest, after about the 3rd day after posting my&nbsp;</span><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/thunderf00t/2012/06/25/misogynist/" style="color: #b85b5a; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">second article</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">, it was clear that wasn’t worth spit.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>How exactly did he not keep his word? You got peer-reviewed.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">When a man is willing to jettison the value of his word so readily, I was under no illusions ‘&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">If you see something you don’t like, rip into it.</em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">&nbsp;‘ in reality meant that you should only rip into it as long as PZ thought it was okay.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">I still think it constitutes okay to rip into. Problem is that you did so extremely headless.</span></i><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">However, I was not going to be bullied into submission by a bunch of second raters, and so despite a series of threats, and Ed Brayton making it clear that if I felt PZ hadn’t kept his word I was free to leave ‘and not let the door hit your ass on the way out’, and that ‘no one would miss me’.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">Again with the Oxford comma. And wait, weren't these threats just trolling?</span></i><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">That’s right, the fact that PZ was lying to people faces to get people into the blog really didn’t phase anyone at freethoughtblogs at all!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>People faces? I mean, if he was lying to dog faces.. And what did he lie about?&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Nor did such explicit threats on the mailing list seem to phase anyone else (no one stepped forward to question such action), which I think shows that bullying is just so widespread on FTB that it is just the socially accepted norm (that’s unless like me, any of the competent people there simply regarded FTB as a lost cause, or at least a cause not worth fighting for, and just got on with their own thing).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Action should be plural, if there were more than one threat. And how is that bullying? No seriously. You were free to leave whenever you wanted.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Y’see this is the slippery slope of becoming intolerant to criticism, eventually it will consume you to the point where you cannot take any criticism….</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>To borrow a quote from Yathzee here "You are projecting so hard, you could point yourself at a wall and show off Powerpoint presentations."&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">where you become intellectually soft and are happy to strawman people en mass for simplicity, then ban them when they call you on your bulk strawmanning!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>How many fucking strawmen do you build? This is just beyond pathetic.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Anyways, it turns out the ‘</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsiXRYUQ7yA" style="color: #b85b5a; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cover story</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">‘ for PC Myers banning me was that I made an argument that existed nowhere outside of his head.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Use punctuation. Do you have any evidence for this? (I feel like I am repeating myself a bit.)</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Look, I wanted to present a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/thunderf00t/2012/06/29/is-it-freethoughtblogs-or-group-think-blogs/" style="color: #b85b5a; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">‘first inspection’ case with some real data, that FTB really wasn’t representative of the wider community</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">that I had experienced.&nbsp;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Then why didn't you do that? 'The difference between the experience of sexism on FTB and YT - a&nbsp;comparative&nbsp;study' would have been a great post, I reckon.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">To me it was obvious that the community I was aware of at conferences, and on youtube was widely different from FTB on the issue of feminism.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Both conferences and YouTube are a bit bigger than FTB.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">People like Rebecca ‘Rape Threat’ Watson were widely regarded at conferences as a toxic asset (no matter if she had been an asset previously) who left a bad taste in the mouths of most people.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Citation needed.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">This is certainly true on youtube, where ZOMGitscriss can put up a video with her in, and her ratings go from something along the lines of 95 % positive to something along the lines of Venomfangx.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>YouTube is not conferences. Just because it is true for A, doesn't make it true for B.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Unremarkable claims require unremarkable evidence, and so I did what was sensible, I simply put up a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKH3trPpgY" style="color: #b85b5a; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spoken word version of my blog, and PZs reply</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">&nbsp;(who views really are seen as vanilla on freethoughtblogs) and asked people who watched to the end who they thought was nearer the mark, my views or the views that could pass as the plurality on freethoughtblogs.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>It was not like you cherrypicked or anything here.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Sure there will be some bias in the data, but not enough to nullify the point that FTB are widely seen as off base on this point.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>What the fuck are you babbling about? No seriously, if you don't think there is enough bias in the data, then please hand in the scientist card. And remember those videos Coughlan made about you? The ratings were in his favour. So you are off base?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">I mean it could be easily examined.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">PZ could read both my post, and his reply on his YT channel and see what the voting would be like, I would guess that he might make 60:40 in his favor (not far off his&nbsp;</span><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/thunderf00t/2012/06/26/ffs-pz-myers-enough-with-the-strawmen/" style="background-color: white; color: #b85b5a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">post-hoc justification for banning me video</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Oh that sounds fair. It is not like you have 100k mindless followers. Oh weren't you just complaining about "no open&nbsp;consultation" ?</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">But of course, PZ was mostly interested in challenging the methods, rather than the conclusion.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Yes. That is called science. Perhaps you have heard of it? Or maybe we should conclude that the body loses 21 gram when dying, and this is it soul.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_(doctor)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_(doctor)</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Or perhaps the conclusion creationists come to? Yes, fuck their method, let's just discuss conclusions, that is what it is all about.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Personally I think this is an unremarkable claim, and as such requires unremarkable data, which it has is scads!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">We could test this easily. You could make a video of you doing nothing but fartnoises, and then ask people how high they would rate it. Then make a video with complete bogus claims. And see that. And then you could see if it differs greatly from your initial point. And you only accepted the first 500 posts. That means people who subscribe to you, thunderf00t. I think we all can agree that you got those views within an hour</span></i><span style="color: #333333;">.&nbsp;</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Anyways, that’s pretty much my experience of the slimepit of ‘Freethoughblogs’ the PC Lyars.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><span style="color: red;">Always differ from your title, that is good.</span></i><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">It’s not the whole story yet though.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Dunn dunn duunnnnn</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">It turns out that freethoughtblogs are not only happy to ban people as a typical creationist would (for something that they never actually said), but are perfectly happy to actively support the abuse of copyright specifically used to stifle active debate.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Not like you ban people, is it? Oh wait, you do. Not like you wanted to kick people off YouTube, for being "a little bit outside the envelope"? Oh wait..</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">More on that later.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Oh great.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>Truth be told, this is beyond pathetic. If this was his writing style on FTB, this should be sufficient reason to kick him. Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, flawed data, erroneous conclusions based on flawed data, references to hear-say and use of personal experience as a factor makes this post seem very biased, as well as unreliable. The constant appeal to being strawmanned is just pathetic. If I changed a few things, I bet I could post this as a picture perfect generic creationist post.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><i>So the final score of this is D-.&nbsp;</i></span></span></div>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-54282132932384260292012-05-16T03:44:00.001-07:002012-05-16T03:44:42.884-07:00There Is No Fare Amount Of Striving For Peace, When You Deal With Certain IndividualsMaybe it is my cynical nature, maybe it is my experience. I reckon to say it is a collection of both, that makes me think that the person who shall not be mentioned, is&nbsp;unredeemable. I am addressing this to HappyCabbie, which is why you will perhaps see the pun in the title. Or maybe not.<br />The individual who shall not be named, let's call him Gabriel, is a known abuser of the DMCA, HC.<br />He used the DMCA to get the name of straightd0pe. And failed. But more importantly, he also obtained my personal information. Which he was so kind to share.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lrq-tpnNrXQ/T7N_F1cUC3I/AAAAAAAAACE/JxuzU1Si87Q/s1600/478_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lrq-tpnNrXQ/T7N_F1cUC3I/AAAAAAAAACE/JxuzU1Si87Q/s320/478_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I have of course blacked out certain information.<br />So my question is, HC, why the hell are you helping out Gabriel?<br />He does not deserve any help. He let himself into this mess.<br />Especially since he has said this:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Bj-pfZrAos/T7N_-DJhN3I/AAAAAAAAACM/CEZlasbAgok/s1600/479.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Bj-pfZrAos/T7N_-DJhN3I/AAAAAAAAACM/CEZlasbAgok/s320/479.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And was behind this:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wUFqF1JUVs8/T7OAYBiQELI/AAAAAAAAACU/OyIpQv0tOfE/s1600/412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wUFqF1JUVs8/T7OAYBiQELI/AAAAAAAAACU/OyIpQv0tOfE/s320/412.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPo_ObYbGyY/T7OAn2W0DTI/AAAAAAAAACc/_LiKp2MJ9hc/s1600/382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPo_ObYbGyY/T7OAn2W0DTI/AAAAAAAAACc/_LiKp2MJ9hc/s320/382.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And not to forget:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R4C5Q0Xtht0/T7OA99L98SI/AAAAAAAAACk/43EqrtWnkWk/s1600/364.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="154" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R4C5Q0Xtht0/T7OA99L98SI/AAAAAAAAACk/43EqrtWnkWk/s320/364.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you misuse the DMCA, you have no right to complain when it happens to you. Gabriel never claimed those videos, after my counter-claim.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Peace is not achieved by helping Iran (Asia) to build nuclear warheads. Sometimes the best thing to do for peace, is to let the person drown in his own urine.</div>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-68851116418474229072012-03-23T04:29:00.001-07:002012-03-23T04:37:58.919-07:00The 188 day earthquake cycle.. I have a better one..I am guessing you have heard about this, if not - please watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFnOf0-FtF0" target="_blank">Potholer54's video.</a><br />By using the magic of Google, I have calculated a cycle that is just as accurate.<br /><br />4th of January 1998 Loyalty Islands region 7.4<br /><i>212 days went by</i><br />4th of August 1998 Ecuador 7.1<br /><i>212 days went by&nbsp;</i><br />4th of March 1999 Indonesia 7.1<br /><i>210 days went by</i><br />30th of September Mexico 7.4<br /><br /><i>&nbsp;</i>So I guess 29th of April 2000 was dooooooooooooooooomed. DOOMED. <i>&nbsp;</i>Oh wait, it wasn't. Carry on, then.Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-73553381185115229682012-03-05T01:27:00.001-08:002012-03-05T10:05:13.105-08:00Re: RE: Youtube starts banning ‘religiously offensive’ videosText from thunderf00t's blog is in normal font, where my comments are red and italic.<br /><br />&nbsp;To be honest when I first got the take down notices, about 6 of them in an hour or so (4 content inappropriate with no chance of appeal, and two privacy complaints) I thought,<br />‘another harassing and minor annoyance in running the channel. A quick email to YT should sort it out.’<br /><i><span style="color: red;">At least you have the option to write an e-mail to YouTube.</span></i><br />I was then simply stunned when youtube claimed these videos had been reviewed by professional and impartial moderators and were removed for either hate speech or privacy violation.<br /><i><span style="color: red;">So you didn't know that YouTube doesn't review the videos? Have you been living under a rock? There is no way in hell that you didn't know this. Unless you are extremely self-centered. &nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">The more so as some of these videos constituted some of the milder things I’ve said about religion.</span><i><span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">Yeah, but still the nicest videos gets flagged. It is not news, TF. I have been on YouTube since 2007, and it is pretty common that this happens.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">The bottom line was, if this really was the new bar for hate speech, not only would it in an instant render the Thunderf00t channel unviable, it would render virtually every rationalist channel unviable.&nbsp;</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">I hate to break this to you, but you do NOT speak for every rationalist (TM) channel out there. What you do on your channel, does not affect me in the slightest. And how when Coughlan666 was flagged, didn't that also set the bar for hate speech? Or when I was flagged? Is there any channel besides yours, Phil, that has this amazing superpower of rendering every rationalist channel unviable?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">Youtubes actions were simply unintelligible. Indeed if someone had told me these were youtube actions, I simply wouldn’t have believed them. But there were the words on the screen in black and white.&nbsp;</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">What is this fucking bullshit? Seriously. Stop whining, we have all been flagged, so please quit your fucking whining, and take as a fucking man. How close have you come to losing your channel? I have lost my channel. I got it back, by sheer pressure. Not by whining like a little girl. And this is not the first time, stop pretending like no atheist channel has ever been flagged before.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">Do you remember some years ago, there was a guy named AndromedasWake. He created a site called "The League Of Reason". Tell me, TF, doesn't this have a 'Fighting Censorship' section? Oh it does..&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">And I'll just address TJ, aka TheAmazingAtheist, here shortly as well. TJ, why the fuck did you jump on this bandwagon? Are you really this fucking stupid? Didn't you once try to create a site called FreeSpeechVids? What was the point of that.. Oh right, escaping false flagging, right?&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: red;">So you are both completely oblivious to the past, just to further your stupid propaganda of atheism being under attack on YouTube, when that is not remotely true. For as Coughlan pointed out, how many theist channels gets close to the atheist channels? I could mention around 10 from the top of my head, that capped the 10,000 subs. So, under attack?</span></i><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;I had no option but to make the video “Youtube starts banning ‘religiously offensive’ videos“.</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">Well there are quite a few other options. You could start building a modelrailroad. Take up knitting. Or here is a fucking idea; make a video called 'Some Of My Videos Have Been Flagged'. Instead of instantly playing the martyr.</span></i><span style="color: black;"> &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">There were simply no other alternatives.</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">No, none. None what so ever. It is not like you could have done as mentioned above, at all. When I was flagged by Brett Keane and J-dub, my only option was to make a video called 'YouTube Loves Brett Keane And They Totally Agree With Him Flagging Me'.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">A fairly high stakes game given that youtube could easily have said my action violated the terms of service and just killed the account.</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">Yeah, you put it all on the line, just for us. Thank you, thunderf00t. I am so pleased, that you dared to offer this in order to please the YouTube.</span></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.reallyghey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/330-bitch-please.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><span style="color: black;">But then again, if the words I had in black and white on the screen were correct, then channel was already dead,</span><br /><i><span style="color: red;">No. It was not. If you get flagged within the same timespan, it only counts as one flag. So, your channel would still be in working condition. And after a while, it would be in mint condition again. Just like my channel. I am now allowed to upload videos longer than 15minutes.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">and the only thing left to do was give a good accounting of itself before the inevitable banhammer.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.profiletreasures.com/comments/Insults/Cheese-With-That-Whine.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://www.profiletreasures.com/comments/Insults/Cheese-With-That-Whine.gif" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>I don't want to comment further on this absolute drivel of a sob-fest. Stop pretending that this is new, as it isn't. And just keep in mind, you had no qualms with YouTube's opinion on thinking that the Coughlan666 "was a bit too offensive outside of the envelope". &nbsp;</i></span>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-7430663664056337852012-02-18T04:34:00.000-08:002012-02-18T04:34:01.259-08:00Wonderful Wholesome Whoretrolls Whining.I was thinking about doing a video about this, but I then decided that I just couldn't be bothered. Plus, I really want to get this blog going again. So <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/thunderf00t" target="_blank">Thunderf00t</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/thunderf00t/status/170436394924249088" target="_blank">replied</a> to my &nbsp;tweet.<br />But I want to bridge the gap here, and explain to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXpMMQ8GDDw" target="_blank">Mr. Mason</a> why the user Ametspeaks or triloaded or whatever name he uses nowadays, is a troll. Or if he is not a troll, then why you should not favorite any videos by this guy.<br />So let's show what Amet has said <a href="http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=Rv10CVQLQ_I" target="_blank">here</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/20120218#5710438805929909314" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="47" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOQ6A81Nl7c/Tz-N1rsO3EI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/xBgpn1VH4ZE/s320/526.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>An outright ban [on porn] will solve almost all of the problems. What exactly do you think of this idea? &nbsp;So Amet clearly thinks that porn is harmful.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021802#5710439576642309074" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-11YhnqxxKMk/Tz-Oii0Yy9I/AAAAAAAAAAc/BFzrLT7V7_I/s320/527.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>He wants to keep the internet clean. This is a guy you are favoriting videos from, f00t. Is this something that you agree with? If they are able to do so with porn, I reckon they could do it with everything, right?<br />Especially since Amet has produced such pictures as:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021803#5710441339785721874" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XqO00QIUTUk/Tz-QJLCiOBI/AAAAAAAAAAo/03abUFccrLA/s320/vlcsnap-2012-02-18-13h01m37s242.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021804#5710442034538275858" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wKoI0Cqm2QA/Tz-QxnMc5BI/AAAAAAAAAA0/8m993msseVE/s320/vlcsnap-2012-02-18-13h05m54s97.png" width="320" /></a></div>Amet also have a habit of refering to people as antisemitic.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021805#5710443800593346050" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gQYZFx-eO5c/Tz-SYaQyrgI/AAAAAAAAABA/ZhQy2c_-O04/s320/528.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>&nbsp;And he likes to insult people (me), with lame insults:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021807#5710445043203759058" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pOZbNMEaO_w/Tz-TgvWM29I/AAAAAAAAABY/AqlTdil-U38/s320/529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021808#5710445415883005378" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pq8lUi0Ul5A/Tz-T2br23cI/AAAAAAAAABk/DjbBzXey5mo/s320/530.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Cock polisher" "femiboy" "weirdo" "cock whisperer".. But, sure go ahead you can still support him, but if you look carefully you can see it says "2 down 1 to go" which is refering to my second strike on my account thunderf00t. Amet is for censorship. Amet wants my channel destroyed. Tell me, do you still think you should be supporting him? Amet supports <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/JdubsTheDestroyer" target="_blank">J-dub</a>. Who flags channels, thunderf00t. He flags down channels. He even admits it. Do you get this?<br />"The pope is deh man.." Is because Amet is supporting (pope)J-dub in taking down channels. J-dub who is friends with Brett Keane, who you are well aware of, I assume. The person who claimed that Coughlan was using Sub-for-sub software, that straightd0pe (Who you are subscribed to) is a troll, &nbsp;that Coughlan is a racist and a troll and that Coughlan flags people. Why don't you support him then, TF?<br />Amet is also against fair use:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021809#5710451653913299650" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="56" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7UVTOpNMEI8/Tz-ZhiKLSsI/AAAAAAAAABw/6aKEPf0XLXc/s320/532.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I don't need to show you Amet videos doing exactly this, do I?<br />And just another nail in the coffin, what does Amet say about abortion:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108554290729028391033/2012021810#5710451982554196514" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="107" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rREZ-9GaRhA/Tz-Z0qcRaiI/AAAAAAAAAB8/NNpaHJMOOTs/s320/533.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />So just to summarize this, Amet is <strong>not&nbsp;</strong>pro-choice. Amet is pro-censorship. Amet is against porn. Amet likes to insult people. And still you support him, thunderf00t? Why not support VenomFangX while you are at it?Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-87396476377127343762011-11-12T03:19:00.000-08:002011-11-12T03:19:04.138-08:00Radon reviews "Fake SaganOwns Straightd0pe - Brett Keane Review"Original text is in black, and my opinion and corrections are in italic and red.<br />The original text can be found <a href="http://brettkeaneblog.blogspot.com/2011_11_10_archive.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />Fake SaganOwns Straightd0pe - Brett Keane Review &nbsp;<span style="color: red;"><em>The title here is just wrong. First notice the name of <a href="http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/FakeSagan" target="_blank">Fakesagan</a> is incorrect. Also the poor grammar makes it look like it is a "Fakesagan owns straightd0pe Brett Keane review". A better suggestion would be "a Brett Keane Review". </em></span><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Captainoawesome was the first user to start you tube drama with me.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: red;"><em>I am unaware if Captainoawesome's name was spelled like that. From the info I have been able to get, the correct name was "<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CapnOAwesome" target="_blank">CapnOAwesome</a>". And it is spelled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/t/about_youtube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. And I have no idea if Cap was the first to start drama with Brett.&nbsp;</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">He was convinced I should never have shown my face on you tube because he believed I was an ugly old man.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><em>This is just poor English. Has he lost this conviction? And again with this "you tube".</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Shortly after the deceased Boringdispatcher began talking trash as well.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uiyDDUC0U" target="_blank">Dead people can talk</a>? That is kinda scary. But citation needed.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">When TheAmazingAtheist came on to you tube months after I did his friend hardcase followed.</span><em><span style="color: red;"> You did Hardcase? And I thought <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNPLDXzgRos" target="_blank">this</a> was gay. You should really try punctuation. After all, you are a renowned "arthur".</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Before these chararcters came onto the scene the Atheist community was content with me.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">This is a lie. And atheist should not be capitalized.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Hardcase and TJ seemed to like me as well but it was clear they wanted to make a name for themselves. </span><em><span style="color: red;">I want to play <a href="http://commachameleon.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">this</a> over and over. Who is TJ? Unless your readers are well aware of TheAmazingAtheist, they would have no clue who you are talking about. Introduce your characters, not just mention their names, in hope some will recognize them.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Wasn't long before Hard made a 17 minute ad hom video disrespecting me in public.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: red;"><em>Do you have any evidence of this alleged video? And are you even aware of the meaning of an ad hom?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">He received a lot of hate for this. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>From who? Not just postulate, but provide evidence.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">We had a back and forth but ended up working issues out.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Yeah, now he just thinks you are not worthy of a debate.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Hardcase became Fake Sagan later and primarily focused on drama. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Use only one synonym/nickname for Fakesagan. You jumping around in the names in this little span of text, gets quite confusing and almost unreadable.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">People thought it was interesting. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Unlike your boring dribble.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Humans love drama because let's face it. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Use the correction punctuation, please. Not "because let's face it period". That is just poor writing.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">People like to see others suffer and go through pain</span><span style="color: red;"><em>. Like when you made that video to TerraRising? And any factual evidence to back this up with?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Fake Sagan discovered true drama and suffering when CaptainAwesome released a video of himself having sex with the drama kings fianc</span><span style="color: black;">e<em>.&nbsp;</em></span><em><span style="color: red;">He is still named "Fakesagan". Is this the same CaptainOawesome you were refering to earlier? And it is spelled "king's" and "fiancé". And <a href="http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/6748f35464def1c8f80e825ac5031c60" target="_blank">my cock was there.</a></span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Fake pretended it didn't hurt him but I knew that it did.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">How? Are you a psychic, besides being <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlsokLA13fU" target="_blank">a</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPJ6GMXM3E" target="_blank">timelord</a>? And why do you refer to him as Fake?&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">The relationship failed and after a bout with Coughlan666 he ended up leaving for a long time.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Unlike you, you mean? When you leave YouTube for all of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqdYXgWW8g" target="_blank">5 hours or 2 days.</a>&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Coughlan sent his fan boys to wreck his channel after Fake and The Amazing Atheist owned him in a drama episode.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Really? Do you have any evidence of Coughlan sending his fanboys?&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">It resulted in Coughlan crying like a baby on video.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">At least Coughlan has feelings. And of course you are going to show the video, but not any of the videos to the prior statements you have made.</span></em><span style="color: black;"><br />Fake came back and has posted few videos under the name thesmoothterrorist. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Actually it is "TheSmoothTerrorist". And unless you are aware of other channels he is currently using, the correct sentence structure would be "..posted a few videos.."</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">TheStraightD0pe </span><em><span style="color: red;">Not spelling his name correct either? Do you have a grudge against getting people's names correct?</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />The user came on the scene a couple years ago not willing to show his face.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">So he is willing to show his face now?&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Attacked Fakesagan claiming he was a coward who was stupid.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Claiming he was a a coward who was stupid? This is so poor English, that you would have to repeat 3rd grade. Who writes like this? And doesn't straightd0pe(abbr. SD) still hold these positions?&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Strange being the fact Dopey liked to call people names while never showing his own face on camera.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">His own face? Like he is able to show other people's faces? Is he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiwA3C2qeRo" target="_blank">Nicolas Cage</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_ZUGS49dY" target="_blank">John Travolta</a>? And why do write like him "calling people names" is a thing of the past?</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">The Dopester enjoyed comfortably sitting back flinging shit at fake through two nasty videos. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>"Sitting back". Why "fake"? And was "Fakey" just an angel in this dispute?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Wasn't a surprise to see that Coughlan was subbed to him and favorite's every nasty video. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Coughlan is still subbed to him.</em></span><span style="color: black;"> &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">HappyCabbie subbed to S.D. as well. </span><em><span style="color: red;">Stalking him a bit I guess?</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Happy has a long history of having his subs destroy and demoralize users on you tube. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Do you have any evidence of this? And YouTube. YouTube!</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Gimmieabrain man was the first to advertise the cowardly troll to help him get started with subs and views. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Clever. Except it would work better if you called him "Gimmeabrainman", you know.. Much closer to his actual accountname. This was also where you found your little "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7vvr4CglQ0" target="_blank">Edward</a>" snippet.&nbsp;</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">I found it interesting that you tube partners who were getting paid by google assisted a user like this. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Commas, they're cool. YouTube! Google! But I thought <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBTd3azoxI" target="_blank">you were a partner</a>, Brett.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Might I add Gimmie as well as happycabbie seem to be unflaggable which suggest they may work for you tube.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">How do you know they are unflaggable? No, seriously, how the hell do you know?&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Which if it is discovered that they are...You Tube can be held responsible for a lot of dirty assaults on it's members.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: red;"><em>"Which if it is discovered".. I have no idea what this means. And how can YouTube "be held responsible"?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Straightdump then made a video attacking Cody Weber who is known as Saturnninefilms.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Actually he is known as "Saturninefilms". And again with the altering of names.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">The guy who use to direct Amazing Atheist videos. </span><em><span style="color: red;">Use what? And now you call him Amazing Atheist. When you refered to him as TJ earlier. Why?</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Made comments such as Cody is a shitty person who does not father his daughter properly. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>He never called him a "shitty person".</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Moaned and groaned on about how Cody ask for money from his audience. </span><em><span style="color: red;">Didn't you just attack people for wanting money from the audience? Oh well..</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Dopey's big game has always been the e-begging game. </span><em><span style="color: red;">Where yours is the scam-artist game.</span></em><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Bitching about how users ask for money. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Nope. He doesn't like when people lying about what they are going to spend the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eT7Z3qO5A" target="_blank">money</a> on. For instance saying you have to pay rent, but instead decides to buy an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_EIerpZN_E" target="_blank">Xbox360</a></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But all the while he signed up to you tube corporation to be paid for his troll videos. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>YouTube! And that is not the same.</em></span><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">He also never went after friends for e-begging. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Whom of his friends have been ebegging and lying about what the money went to?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">So now d0pe was getting rewarded and paid by you tube to harass big you tubers. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Define "big". YouTube! YouTubers! Like when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8fne-oMNA" target="_blank">you</a> monetized your videos "<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/brettkeanerocks/home/exposing-cyber-bullies" target="_blank">exposing</a>" various YouTube users?</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"> Even made a video bragging about it. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>At least he wasn't confused. And then decided to quit, to return.</em></span><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Wasn't long before he began making videos attacking me. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>And just to be clear here. He wasn't a partner when he first "attacked" you. And you filed a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wzsLpCVcek" target="_blank">DMCA against him.</a> And that is how I came to know straightd0pe, and by proxy; you.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">My looks, e-begging, and other personal crap.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: red;"><em>Yes, he went after your e-begging. But you have done all the same to other users.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">He stole all the troll videos that were already made about me and compiled them. </span><span style="color: red;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk" target="_blank">All of them</a>? That is quite a feat.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">He then proceeded to narrate over them.&nbsp;</span><em><span style="color: red;">Or just show them? And then show your videos, contradicting each other.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">A lot of trolls support the user most likely because he convinced them he must lie and attack people because you tube needs policing. </span><span style="color: red;"><em><a href="http://commachameleon.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">Comma comma chameleon</a>. I thought you and J-Dub were the police. You know constantly posting the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9yjSYOI_s" target="_blank">guidelines</a>. I give up on the "you tube" thing.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">I ended up going on to blog tv to deal with him. </span><em><span style="color: red;">After you tried to weasel out of it.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">He refused to talk one on one. </span><em><span style="color: red;">Odd, you were the one having his spouse commenting. SD didn't bring anyone. Except for "text-only" people.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">He wanted his friends to assist him. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>No. He did not want that. He wanted everybody to see you fall flat on your face.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Bombarding me with stupid questions about how I knew his name. This had been answered many times. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>And never in the same way. First you found it through Google searching. Then you heard Gimmeabreakman say the name "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7vvr4CglQ0" target="_blank">Edward</a>", when your lackey J-Dub or yourself edited a video, to make it seem like it was said in the same sentence, as he refered to straightd0pe. It was blatant dishonesty.&nbsp;</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">His main contention was some reviews on my books. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Which you obviously wrote yourself. Nobody could ever enjoy your books</em></span><span style="color: black;">.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">These books had been written several years ago and just a few years ago published through vanity press.</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><em>And this is where you wrote the "<a href="http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Brett_Keane" target="_blank">reviews</a>". </em></span><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: black;">It was just a boring blog tv. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>I don't know. I was having fun. It didn't last that long. It didn't take long for you to ragequit.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">What pissed me off is he clearly edited a video to give it the appearance of plagerism.</span><em><span style="color: red;"> Plagiarism! That is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bscvZipeVQQ" target="_blank">original video</a>, Brett. You know that. You have plagiarized so much.</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">When I seen him do that I knew he was a nasty person who only had intentions of hurting users. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Or perhaps you didn't have a response - to the fact that you had been called out on your bullshit.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">The Smoothterrorist aka Fake went after him later on blogtv and destroyed him. </span><span style="color: red;"><em>Not really, no. That was a boring BlogTV. For everybody. And why do you suddenly need to explain who "Fake" is? You have established the connection between the two nicks prior, so it is just poor writing.</em></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Showing straightd0pe to be nothing more than a cowardly hypocrite who defends e-begging if it's his friends. </span><em><span style="color: red;">And you will backstab all of your friends.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: red;">Generally I have to say, if this was handed in as an essay, it would have recieved a big F. The language is between poor and incomprehensible. The timeline is all over the place, and there is no narrative. There is very little on the actual topic of the title. Only two sentences were dedicated to this.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><em><span style="color: red;">Don't read the post. It is horrible.&nbsp;</span></em><br /><em><span style="color: red;"> </span></em>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-30970446281245681612011-07-13T03:30:00.000-07:002011-07-13T03:32:44.876-07:00A guy and a girl gets into an elevator..<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the guy asks the female if she would like to come to his place for a cup of coffee.. Sorry this is not the start of a <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/1635/">dirty joke</a>. But instead the newest drama on the atheist-youtube-internets. Where <a href="http://skepchick.org/">skepchick</a> aka <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/rkwatson">Rebecca Watson</a> had the experience of sharing an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m7P8BRTilk">elevator</a> with a guy, who asked if she would like to have a cup of coffee, and she rejected, and then made a video about the incident, proclaiming she had been sexualised. That is the story as objective as I possibly can make it.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://youtu.be/uKHwduG1Frk">Original video</a>&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for my own subjective opinion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, the proposal for coffee and or sex might have been in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPYTfS8Kuw">bad taste</a>. But so what? Speaking as a male, to get some, you might have to do something that is in bad taste or akward. That is the male role, yay for equality here, because what are the chances that the woman makes the first move?&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is presumed and accepted that guys make the first move. Almost never the females. And that of course makes akward situations. This weekend me and a mate were in the town, clubbing, and guess how many females approached us. Correct; 0. We/he approached at least 3 x 2 girls, and none accepted a drink.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have the disadvantage that I hate talking one-on-one, with anyone, especially without making any lameass jokes, which mean I don't bag that many girls, because most of the time I have to be the one proposing. I have an online dating profile (okay, I have multiple, shut up), and I think the times I have gotten a message from a girl, where she took the initiative, can be counted on one hand, where the times I have written, you need a calculator and extra toes.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what is my point? It is fairly normal for a guy to ask a female if they should get a cup of coffee.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no harm in this. Now he did ask in the elevator, and Ms. Watson stated it was uncomfortable for her. Really? How do you assume he felt? You ever considered that?&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was just shot down, and now he has to ride alongside you, feeling ashamed. He was probably more embarrased than you were. He had to the job, and the set up, and it failed. Ergo he failed. How do you think he felt.. He couldn't get away either.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how did he sexualize you, Skepchick? For fucks sake, your name contain the phrase chick. And without knowing, I can assume it doesn't refer to Jack Chick, but instead to the expression for an attractive female. So you sexualize yourself. All he did was asking for a longer discussion, maybe a private discussion, over a cup of coffee. Maybe he just wanted to boink you. That is not for us to know, but I always thought innocent until proven guilty.. but I guess not..</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you have this on your website, Rebecca.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"1) The calendar applicant’s final photo is “pin-up” in nature, and includes science-y, skeptical, geeky goodness. We’re not after overt nudity, but rather ask that it be titillatingly and tastefully used. We are after the skeptical/science/nerd/geek angle, and those photos that use both will have an advantage. This is the main category for most everyone considering applying."</i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sexualizing you? GO FUCK YOURSELF. &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So once again you sexualize yourself, by assuming that you cannot stand a discussion with him, but instead just strip naked. And you sexualize him, by assuming all he wanted was to touch you with his genitals. Actually by that single comment(s), he proved that there is sexism in the Atheist Community (TM). Let's assume that you had been unattractive, and he was a normal looking guy, and the same scenario unfolded.. What do you think the reaction would have been? Would he also just be looking for sex?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you don't know anything about him, Watson. He could have been married, and just thought you were dead wrong on the issue, and might had a clumsy way of asking you to go discussing them. (4-5 beers can do this) Because not everybody likes to discuss these things in public.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of people have complained one shouldn't hit on a female on an elevator, because it is an enclosed unescapable area. What complete bullshit, because you can say that about everywhere. The only difference is that the elevator is kinda small. &nbsp;But you can get off almost everywhere in an elevator. There are all the floors, and you can just say "Oh, I am getting of here" and then wait 20 seconds for the next elevator. No fucking problem. Next you can't hit on female in the club, because there is no escape there. Except leave, but since you paid..&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where does it end?&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it might have been clumsy, but if females should bitch about every time a guy hits on them and it is akward, they would have take time off in their daily routines. God knows that is more likely to happen, than girls taking the first step. Sometimes you as a heterosexual male just don't know if the female wants you. She might play hard-to-get or she might not be interested. The difference between the two - are as small as my penis. Almost non-existent. And then what are we supposed to do as guys? Just let women do all the akwardness? So, we should almost never get laid.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or perhaps we should only sleep with people we know fairly well. So no more one-nighters.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So is any of this worth anyone's time? Nope. Just a regular occurence. A clumsy guy asks a girl out. End of story.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as many have suggested, what if the roles were reversed...&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now to radfems.. What are you, fucking retarded? That he should be interested in raping her? Why? Not everyone with a penis is a rapist. Far from it actually.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://refinedinthefire.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/waldo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, it would make no sense. Oi, would you like to go my room, 38c, so we can have coffee and then I could rape you. I might not be up on my hotelmanagement, but don't you reserve your room in your name? Don't you usually pay with your creditcard? So it makes no sense, since he would have been discovered faster than finding Valdo here:</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://refinedinthefire.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/waldo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://refinedinthefire.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/waldo.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my opinion on this summed up: If you girls don't want males to hit on you akwardly, then either start hitting on guys yourself, you know equality, or start to show some fucking interest. Or at least stop bitching about a guy showing some interest.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Radon -single -has never been hit on in an elevator.&nbsp;</span><br /><br />You know what they say about elevators.. They go up and down.. Like girls riding my penis..<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">----------------</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some other people's opinion on the matter:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://felidathegeek.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am-stuck-in-elevator-gate-help.html">http://felidathegeek.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am-stuck-in-elevator-gate-help.html</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZp0HCl6Xg&amp;feature=feedu">DLandonCole</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqU9JFbtucU">TheAmazingAtheist&nbsp;</a></span>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534307746737916420.post-34869979295127952092011-07-04T13:03:00.000-07:002011-07-04T13:03:17.058-07:00Is Geert Wilders far-right?<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At least he is far-from-right. Now with that extremely poor joke out of the way, let's get to the business.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell">Pat Condell (from YouTube)</a> made a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4YMbsEm3ms">video</a> about BBC and in it he complained about BBC being liberal, and alike, because they were calling Geert Wilders, the dutch MP for far-right.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In an interview with RNW, Radio Netherlands WorldWide, Wilders proclaimed his newfounded party, Party for Freedom, (Which has nothing to do with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk">Beastie Boys</a>) were more right than his former party VVD. "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders#Political_career">Tensions immediately developed within the party, as Wilders found himself to be to the right of most members [of VVD], and challenged the party line in his public statements</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The original of this statement is no more.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This and not allowing Turkey into the EU led Wilders to create his own party.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Even thou André Krouwel put Wilders' party, PVV, onto the center of the map</span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pol-landschap-2010.gif">here</a><br />Hh<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, if we are to believe Wilders himself, he should be right of VVD. Which is, in fact, very right wing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So yes, Geert Wilders is far-right. And especially on the issue which he is known for, he is extremely right-winged. When it comes to immigration, he is far-right. There might be other issues where he is not that far-right.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And actually Pat's accusation of BBC being liberal, reminds me of an old saying here in the Danish mediabusiness. It was that all the mediaoutlets voted for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radikale_Venstre">Radical Left</a> (the party), and in order to be something big in there, you also had to vote B..&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Of course it was not true. Even thou it would explain why I am still looking for an apprenticeship..&nbsp;</span>Atomicnumber86http://www.blogger.com/profile/16563362429176896169noreply@blogger.com1